Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2003
ISBN: 3110178958
Author: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Rating: 0.00
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Monday, September 1, 2003
Sunday, March 23, 2003
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.
Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists. What results is an insightful mediation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people.
In a new postscript, Theroux recounts the dramatic events of a return to Africa to visit Zimbabwe.
ISBN: 0618134247
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Rating: 3.95
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Tuesday, December 3, 2002
River Of Ruin (Philip Mercer, #5)
River Of Ruin (Philip Mercer, #5)
In the heart of Panama, a volcanic lake feeds a serpentine river—its stone banks laid by the Inca, who took back the gold and jewels plundered from them by the conquistadors. Legend has it that the Twice-Stolen Treasure has been buried for centuries in the Panamanian jungle. Discovering it means surviving the unpredictable black waters of the River of Ruin….
It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip Mercer: the opportunity to buy a rare diary written during the French attempt at digging the Panama Canal. But Mercer isn’t the only one who wants it. Three Chinese assassins have been dispatched to get it, forcing Mercer into a subterranean game of cat and mouse that takes him from the hellish maze of l’empire de la mort and through the sewers of Paris.
Mercer realizes he has uncovered an intricate Chinese plot to trigger a deadly shift in the world’s balance of power. At stake is control of the canal, recently handed over to the government of Panama by the United States. Only Philip Mercer—with help from beautiful U.S. Army officer Lauren Vanik, a cell of tough French Foreign Legion commandos, and a crusty eighty-year-old retired sea captain named Harry White—can stop them.
ISBN: 0451410548
Author: Jack Du Brul
Publisher: NAL
Rating: 4.13
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Thursday, August 1, 2002
Waiting for Foucault, Still
Waiting for Foucault, Still
First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pear Press in 1993, this expanded edition of Waiting for Foucault represents some of the brightest anthropological satire—mixed in with some of the most serious intellectual issues in the human sciences. Whether he's summing up the state of the discipline ("Some things are better left un-Said") or ruminating on the ancients, Sahlins delivers a strong mixture of wit and wisdom.
ISBN: 097175750X
Author: Marshall Sahlins
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Rating: 3.87
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Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age.
With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.
ISBN: 0375726217
Author: Nicholson Baker
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: 3.37
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Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Ivan Adolf
Ivan Adolf
ISBN: 0971374813
Author: Stephen Vicchio
Publisher: IPP Press
Rating: 3.25
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Wednesday, October 24, 2001
The Magicians Guild (Black Magician Trilogy, #1)
The Magicians Guild (Black Magician Trilogy, #1)
Caught up in a confrontation between the hated Guild magicians and the angry youth of the slums, to her dismay Sonea discovers that she possesses the same powers as the reviled magicians. to avoid capture, she must seek protection from the city's feared underworld, the thieves. In return she must use her powers for them, but her magic never seems to do quite what she intends it to... From a new author who has already made her mark on the Australian fantasy scene winning this year's Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story, Canavan's first novel is full of wonderful characters, intrigue, deceitful warlocks, secret catacombs and uncontrollable magic.
ISBN: 0732270952
Author: Trudi Canavan
Publisher: Voyager
Rating: 3.95
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